Point-of-Care Diagnostics

Grand Challenges in Global Health launched a new grant program to create technologies to assess health conditions and pathogens at the point-of-care in a variety of settings, building on the challenge funded in 2005. $30 million in funding was committed for Phase I of this new diagnostics program.

Grand Challenges in Global Health launched a new grant program to create technologies to assess health conditions and pathogens at the point-of-care in a variety of settings, building on the challenge funded in 2005. $30 million in funding was committed for Phase I of this new diagnostics program.

Background

High throughput approaches to genomics, proteomics and the measurement of other analytes, coupled with novel technologies of miniaturization and highly parallel detection create the possibility of radically new ways to detect and diagnose health and disease states in an individual, even in remote or impoverished settings.